Just a reminder that the conversation component of Microscope Gallery's online screening event "Jonas Mekas: Tapes" is this evening at 7:30PM ET.
Panelists: Lukas Brasiskis, Elle Burchill, Christoph Gnaedig, Jeanne Liottoa, and Sebastian Mekas A Q&A with the audience follows via live chat Tickets are valid for both the screening and the conversation and can be found at this link: *https://tinyurl.com/y4dak7nr <https://tinyurl.com/y4dak7nr>* The screening program will remain watchable through Thursday 10:30pm ET. More info: www.microscopegallery.com *Lukas Brasiskis* is a film and media researcher and curator, currently a PhD candidate at New York University in the Department of Cinema Studies and an adjunct professor at NYU and CUNY/Brooklyn College. In his works Brasiskis combines backgrounds coming from the studies of film and media, art history, and philosophy. His interests include eco-media (with an emphasis on limits and potentialities of mediation of the the material and the elemental in regard to different political discourses and cultural understandings), politics and aesthetics of the world cinema, and study of intersections between moving image cultures and contemporary art world. Brasiskis’ texts have been published in both academic and non-academic media and he has curated and programmed a number of screenings. The list includes a video art program *Environmental Memories in East-Central European Art (Alternative Film/Video Festival. Belgrade, Serbia), James Benning’s film program Landscape to be Experienced and to be Read: Time, Ecology, Politics (CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania), a film program Mermaid with The Movie Camera (Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NY), a program of experimental films Human, Material, Machine (together with Leo Goldsmith, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania), a screening and a discussion event Baltic Poetic Documentary as Ethnographic Cinema (NYU, NY), a film program Welcome to the Anthropocene (CCAMP, Lithuania), a retrospective of films by Nathaniel Dorsky (CAC, Vilnius), among others.* *Christoph Gnaedig*, b. 1983, in Cottbus, Germany; film and media researcher, media artist, freelance curator and writer. Graduated from University of Vienna, Austria with a degree in Cinema Studies and Film Theory in 2015. Teaching and lecturing activities since 2015, among others at University of Vienna and University of Applied Arts Vienna. From 2016 to 2018 he studied documentary film with Thomas Heise and since 2018 in the class "expanded cinema" with video artist Clemens von Wedemeyer at Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. Gnaedig has been a visiting researcher in Jerusalem and in New York. He has been Involved in various publications, most recently: “WhatBreaksThePattern," Kunsthalle Wien 2019 and"Jonas Mekas New York Diaries 1952-1969 - I Seem To Live," Spector Books 2020. *Jeanne Liotta* is an artist working in film and other mediums with thematics often located at the intersection of art, science, natural philosophy, and ephemerality. Her films and works have screened and exhibited extensively in the US and internationally including among many others at the Whitney Museum of American Art (including the Whitney Biennial 2006); The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France, and at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where she won the Tiger Award for her 16mm film “Observando El Cielo.” She has also maintained ongoing research, programming and lecturing on The Joseph Cornell Film Collection at Anthology Film Archives, and has written a monograph on Cornell’s films published by The San Francisco Cinematheque for the traveling exhibition “Navigating the Imagination.” She presently directs the MFA in Arts Practices/Film at The University of Colorado Boulder, where she is also an Associate Professor in Film Studies. Additionally, she is on the Film/Video faculty at the Bard MFA Program. Jeanne Liotta lives and works between New York and Boulder, Colorado. *Sebastian Mekas *is the son of Jonas Mekas Archive, Director of the Jonas Mekas Studio, and President of the Board of Trustees at Anthology Film Archives. *Elle Burchill* is an artist / curator and co- founder / co-director of Microscope Gallery in New York. She worked with Jonas Mekas as his video editor from 2007 - 2019. *Andrea Monti *an artist/curator and co-founder / co-director of Microscope Gallery in New York. He was previously a founder of and curator for Lucca Film Festival in Lucca Italy. He has curated various exhibitions and screenings of the works of Jonas Mekas in both capacities.
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